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Atlantic Ocean

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  • Laying a cable on the Atlantic seabed: the crew of the Great Eastern launching a buoy in an attempt to retrieve a lost cable. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker, 1866, after R.C. Dudley.
  • Slave ships on the ocean. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1858.
  • Christopher Columbus, on his ship, admonishes his men for their lack of courage. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.
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    Slave ships on the ocean. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1858.

    | Date: [1858] | Reference: 37945i
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    Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1771 et 1772, en diverses parties de l'Europe, de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique; pour vérifier l'utilité de plusieurs méthodes et instrumens, servant à déterminer la latitude et la longitude tant du vaisseau que des côtes, isles & écueils qu'on reconnoît: suivi de recherches pour rectifier les cartes hydrographiques / Par M.rs de Verdun de al Crenne ... le chevalier de Borda ... et Pingré.

    Verdun de la Crenne, Jean René-Antoine, marquis de, 1741-1805. | Date: [1778]
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    Christopher Columbus, on his ship, admonishes his men for their lack of courage. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.

    | Date: [1850?] | Reference: 566121i
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    Some notes on the Cetacea of the Irish Atlantic coast / by R.J. Anderson.

    Anderson, Richard John, 1848-1914. | Date: [1905]
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    Examination of some deep soundings from the Atlantic Ocean ; On some new localities of fossil Diatomaceae in California and Oregon / by J.W. Bailey.

    Bailey, Jacob Whitman, 1811-1857. | Date: 1854
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